Dear Ensemble singers and families,
First of all, I hope that you truly enjoyed Cantabile’s Festival for Young Voices last weekend
with Dr. Anthony Trecek-King and Derique.
It was a beautiful, informative, and soul-filled event that you will
remember for the rest of your lives! Being able to hear and talk with Aria on
Wednesday gave you a goal for the future, how much can be accomplished with
hard work, dedication, and active listening!
We have now entered the second half of the semester and it is time to
begin focusing on our Spring Concert repertoire. Please see below to get started!
Ensemble
Rehearsal Notes
Goza
mi calipso:
·
Speak through the text and practice the pronunciation
of the Spanish. Soprano 1s please pay
particular attention to the verses on page 2, rehearsal marking B.
·
Practice the syncopated rhythms by counting and
clapping, speaking the text in rhythm, and even writing out the counting if
needed.
·
Sing through on your notes. Notice that the material at rehearsal
markings A, D, and F is the same!!
Day
Break:
·
Review what we worked on during class, pages
10-14. Be sure your notes/rhythms/text are
solid on this section by next week.
·
Review the beginning of the piece, pages 2-6. Notice that the material is very similar in
these two sections!
·
Please look through your parts at rehearsal
markings 4-5 and 9 to the end. We will
be working on these sections next week.
·
Please listen
to this recording several times to get a feel for this piece. This recording is accessed through DropBox. If you do not have DropBox, it is free and
safe to download the recording online.
Bedu
Pako Baramasa:
·
Please spend some time reviewing what was done on
this piece several weeks ago. It has
been some time, but you did learn the notes and text for pages 3 and 4.
Aural
(Listening) and Theory Skills:
·
Please practice singing the following at home:
1.
Major Scale on Solfège with hand signs
2.
Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor, and Melodic Minor
Scales on Solfège with hand signs
3.
Scale Intervals both ascending (going up – Do Re,
Major Second) and descending (going down – Do Ti, Minor Second)
4.
Don’t forget about Sing Legato on Solfège syllables, note names, counts, and if you
are up to even more challenge, scale degrees!
Musicianship Notes
Musicianship A
Please make sure to write in the solfège for all parts of
the excerpt of Exaltabo Te I handed
to you. You get this week to catch up on your theory books, so please make sure
to have all the pages previously assigned (through page 11) done for next week!
Musicianship B
Please print out the worksheet I've linked to here, and
complete it for next time. (It has a correction in it; the old sheet you have
has a paragraph that references a problem that isn't on the sheet, oops!)
Here is the link to the website I mentioned before that
has examples of various intervals. Be sure to listen to as many as you can, and
have your interval worksheets done for next time!
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